Piracy & The Pandemic: Web Sheriff Marks 20th Anniversary with Sundance and tiff Deals
On-Line-Rights pioneer Web Sheriff marked its 20
th Anniversary by successfully representing this year s Sundance Film Festival and September s Toronto International Film Festival.
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The Covid-19 pandemic posed major challenges to the Cinema Industry and Movie Business. Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival successfully overcame these hurdles by largely migrating their festivals on-line and so that they were still accessible to a global audience. (Photo: Business Wire)
With Covid-19 restrictions having limited the usual, global gatherings for Sundance and tiff, the organisers of both festivals responded with characteristic flair and creativity, embracing the very latest streaming technology and largely moving their festivals on-line. Teaming-
Why people are spending £250k on a service to clean up their online reputation
Cleaning up your online image is a daily concern for the likes of Khloe Kardashian and the world s most high-powered - but it s possible
The Kardashians are knowing for safely guarding their online personas
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“When a person wants to clean up their online reputation, they come to us”, says John Giacobbi, founder of Web Sheriff, the self-proclaimed “world’s leading internet policing specialist”.
In the space of just hours, John has promised to make me “the best version of myself I can possibly be” (at least online) flagging every unsightly office party selfie, tone-deaf Tweet and embarrassing search result for the “Samuel Fishwick” name (he’ll let me know if I share my nom de plume, for instance, with a convicted cat burglar from Idaho).
He s very comfortable talking to people, especially adults. A lot of people say he s like a little old man.
Inspired by the late Captain Sir Tom Moore s heroic efforts for the NHS, Zach raised £20,000 last summer by walking - minus his wheelchair for the first time - around the family garden.
But when his 1.6-mile feat was publicised on Twitter, trolls bombarded it with strobes and multicoloured images designed to spark convulsions.
Zach was not harmed but several epilepsy patients who saw them suffered fits.
Campaigners want seizure-inducing messages to be recognised as a specific offence in the forthcoming Online Harms Bill.